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Twice I've found phones on the side of road in my neighborhood, from people who left them on their car and drove off. In both cases I was able to get into the phone and make a few calls, and eventually return the phone to their owners. If they had passwords or fingerprint scanners, they would have never gotten their phone back, as AI had to look at a few contacts and make a few calls. One was an iPhone 3GS (new a the time) and a more recent phone was a Samsung SIII. The iPhone was run over by a car, and still worked great - just cracked a plastic cover case it had on it. So if you do keep your phone passworded, you might want to keep it in a case, and have your name and phone number written inside the case. It will greatly increase the chances of getting you phone back if you lose it.Reply

"We finally have a way to directly send files between two iOS devices on the same WiFi network"

This kinda misses the point. AirDrop does NOT require a pre-existing WiFi network, it creates one on the fly. This is the primary reason that it only works on some iOS devices, not all --- it needs devices with chips that can create an ad hoc network.Reply

Also I'm wondering that if they were in fact going after the chinese/indian/african markets with the 5C whether they spec'd it too high. To anyone other than Beijing "sallarymen" the C is still too expensive.Reply

Man I can't believe the excitement over a pretty iterative device, a decent upgrade for sure but you'd think they'd invented a whole new phone and ended hunger for good. Luckily for me and my ballyhooing, they made the devices (mainly the storage upgrades - apple we all know you're putting at least 75% of that extra $100 straight to profit) overpriced so their market share isn't going to be changing any time soon. $550 isn't any more accessible than $750 for most of the world, and if you lived where $550 was a lot, you sure as well wouldn't spend it on a watered down device when you could get a lot more for your money.

Strangely it seems like apple focused a lot on specs that no one else other than tech people will pay attention to and didn't change anything else that is visible to people like screen size - at least offer some choices. Bigger screens have been pulling my friends away from the iPhone. The reason it is strange is that that is usually the critique leveled at android phones.

Also what's the screen rez? After those TFT LCDs on the $1000 air I am very mistrustful of apple especially since this blog didn't mention anything about it and you know if apple had added an extra pixel it'd be the greatest thing in the world on here.Reply

I was pleasantly surprised by the move to 64-bit. On MacRumors 2 weeks ago, I discounted that possibility since I didn't think Apple would be that bold. While we don't yet have phones with 4+GB of RAM, by making this move now, at least developers will be ready once phones have that power (probably in a year or two). Reply